Loved working for this plat. Oddly enough the longest grind was for Cloudstone chunks! I had been too lazy to pick up the ones in 4-3, so when I finally got around to the trophy I had only the 2 from 4-3. The rays are the only ones that drop the chunks and at a ridiculously low drop rate. Bladestone still did take a bit but the backwards rush from 4-3 archstone wasn't too tedious. I really was surprised how much I enjoyed farming for Marrowstone in 5-2. I developed a really tidy method of circling the perimeter taking out every mosquito on the board.

Emergence wrote:Loved working for this plat. Oddly enough the longest grind was for Cloudstone chunks! I had been too lazy to pick up the ones in 4-3, so when I finally got around to the trophy I had only the 2 from 4-3. The rays are the only ones that drop the chunks and at a ridiculously low drop rate.

This!!! so much. I was an idiot decided to upgrade the purple flame shield in my first plat, 9 bloody chunks for the last upgrade, it took ages. I got worried at one stage that i'd get called to the Hague for genocide on the rays. Worst of all when you killed them above the rocks and the item just hung there, you couldn't get it and every bone in your body told you it was a chunk.

Yup, there was a special feeling of despair reserved for when one of them died over the rocks. I developed a method for killing them where I could collect them. Which also reminds me of when I tried for hours determined to be the first person to kill one of the double winged hawks in 4-1. I lined up my angle from sparkly's perch and kept adjusting the timing of when to let the arrow loose. And then it finally happened, my soul counter went up a smidge, and the hawk fell. I went to go collect the loot from its corpse and take a screenshot, but it had fallen on the side of the mountain...